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Months in Year 1794: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 64 of 64

Jan 11th - Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
Jan 13th - Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
Jan 14th - Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
Feb 4th - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
Feb 10th - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
Feb 11th - 1st session of US Senate open to the public
Feb 14th - 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
Feb 26th - Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down.
Feb 28th - US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
Mar 3rd - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
Mar 3rd - Richard Allen founded AME Church
Mar 11th - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
Mar 14th - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin
Mar 22nd - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
Mar 23rd - 1st US patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
Mar 23rd - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
Mar 23rd - Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
Mar 27th - US Navy forms
Mar 27th - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
Mar 27th - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
Mar 28th - Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
Mar 28th - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
Apr 21st - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
Apr 30th - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
May 6th - Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
May 17th - Hard frost in southern New England
May 18th - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
Jun 1st - English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French
Jun 1st - The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Jun 4th - Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
Jun 5th - Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
Jun 10th - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
Jun 10th - France revolutionary regime begins trials
Jun 16th - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
Jun 23rd - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
Jun 24th - Bowdoin College is founded.
Jun 25th - French troops occupy Charleroi
Jun 26th - Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army
Jun 30th - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
Jul 2nd - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
Jul 13th - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
Jul 17th - African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
Jul 17th - Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
Jul 27th - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
Jul 31st - All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
Aug 1st - Whiskey Rebellion begins
Aug 8th - Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
Aug 16th - Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
Aug 20th - Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
Aug 26th - French troops occupy Lock
Sep 27th - French troops conquer Crèvecoeur
Oct 9th - French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
Oct 29th - French troops occupies Venlo
Oct 31st - John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society
Nov 3rd - French troops conquer Maastricht
Nov 7th - French troops conquer Nijmegen
Nov 9th - Russian troops occupy Warsaw
Nov 19th - Jakobinen Club forms in Paris
Nov 19th - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
Nov 21st - Honolulu Harbor discovered
Nov 22nd - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
Dec 8th - 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
Dec 15th - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
Dec 30th - French troops conquer Grave Neth

Famous Birthdays

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Jan 6th - Kaspar Masek, composer
Jan 25th - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
Feb 12th - Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
Feb 20th - William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
Feb 21st - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36)
Feb 25th - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
Mar 5th - Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
Mar 5th - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
Mar 16th - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
Mar 26th - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
Mar 31st - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
Apr 9th - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
Apr 10th - Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
Apr 11th - Edward Everett, Dorchester Mass, (Gov-Mass), statesman/orator
Apr 12th - Germinal P Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry)
Apr 15th - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
Apr 17th - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
Apr 23rd - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
May 13th - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
May 17th - Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer
May 23rd - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
May 24th - William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)
May 27th - Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
May 29th - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
Jun 18th - George Grote, British historian
Jul 3rd - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
Jul 5th - Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker
Jul 12th - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist
Jul 14th - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
Jul 24th - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
Aug 10th - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
Aug 11th - James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)
Aug 15th - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
Aug 17th - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
Aug 28th - Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
Sep 29th - William Michael Rooke, composer
Oct 10th - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
Oct 13th - Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
Oct 18th - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer
Oct 23rd - Joseph Panny, composer
Oct 24th - Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant
Oct 26th - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
Nov 3rd - William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
Nov 17th - John Barrien Montgomery, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1873
Nov 23rd - Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)
Dec 10th - James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
Dec 14th - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)

Famous Deaths

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Jan 8th - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
Jan 10th - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
Jan 16th - Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56
Jan 31st - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
Mar 4th - Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
Mar 29th - Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50
Apr 5th - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
Apr 8th - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
Apr 13th - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
Apr 18th - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
Apr 23rd - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
Apr 27th - William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47
May 6th - Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59
May 8th - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
May 10th - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30
Jun 8th - G A Borger, writer, dies
Jun 14th - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
Jun 18th - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
Jun 19th - Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
Jun 27th - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
Jun 27th - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
Jul 2nd - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
Jul 7th - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
Jul 17th - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
Jul 17th - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
Jul 22nd - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
Jul 25th - Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
Jul 28th - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
Jul 28th - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
Jul 28th - Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers
Aug 6th - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
Aug 11th - Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 72
Aug 14th - George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies
Sep 4th - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
Sep 15th - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
Sep 25th - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
Oct 12th - James Lyon, composer, dies at 59
Oct 20th - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64
Nov 3rd - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
Nov 14th - Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30
Nov 17th - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
Nov 22nd - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
Nov 28th - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64